Dumping-vehicle.



PATENTED'JAN. 2, 1906.

3. U. LANCASTER.

DUMPING VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.18. 1905.

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lNVENTOR WITNESSES No. 808,991. PATENTED JAN. 2, 1906. s. c. LANCASTER.DUMPING VEHICLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18. 1905.

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t 7 E m 41/02714 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUIVIPING-VEHICLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

Application filed January 18,1905. Serial No. 241,673.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL C. LANCASTER, a resident of Jackson, in thecounty of Madison and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Dumping-Vehicles; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved dumping-vehicle, the object of theinvention being to provide an improved two-wheel dumpingvehicle having ahopper-shaped body comprising two half-sections hinged together at theirupper ends and provide means for permitting the sections to separate fordumping the contents or to be drawn together.

A further object is to provide improved means for changing the pitch ofthe wheels to ride flat on the roadway regardless of the curvature orpitch of the latter.

With these and otherobjects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations and arrangements ofparts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation,illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and Fig. 3is a plan view.

1 represents a frame comprising longitudinal angle-iron bars disposedparallel and located-a proper distance apart through the intermediateportions of their length and converging together at their ends. Thesebars 1 are connected by diagonal braces 2 with ver-' tical bars 3, andthe latter carry at their lower ends axle-stubs 4, on whichtraction-wheels 5 are mounted. The upper ends of bars 3 are made withopenings to receive a cross-rod 6, which latter projects at its endsbeyond bars 3 and is screw-threaded to receive nuts 7, and the nuts 7are rounded to receive similarlyshaped enlargements on the bars 3 andform, in efiect, ball-and-socket joints to permit the bars 3 to beadjusted, as will be hereinafter explained, to change the incline of thewheels to suit the pitch of the road.

8 represents the vehicle-body, which is of the general hopper shapeshown, comprising two half-sections hinged together at their uppermeeting edges, and the cross-rod 6 serves as the support for the bodyand hinge-pin to 1 connect the half-section.

Bars 3 near their lower ends are made with openings to receive a rod 9,which passes between the half-sections and rests in notches therein. Oneend of the rod 9 has a head against one bar 3 and the other end isscrewthreaded to receive a nut 10. The connections between the uprightbars 3 and the cross-rod 6 are made loosein effect, as be foreexplained, ball-and-socket joints. The rod 9 is, as shown in Figs. 1 and2, located a considerable distance below the rod 6, and when the nut 10on one end of the rod 6 is turned the tendency will be to'draw theuprights 3 toward each other, causing them to turn on theball-and-socket connection with the cross-rod 6, the draft-frame 1 beingsufficiently yielding or elastic to permit such inward adjustment of theuprights 3. Thus it will be seen that by screwing the nut on the rod 9the uprights can be inclined inwardly and that the broad treads of thewheels will necessarily be caused to assume the same inclination andmade to run Hat on the road instead of running 011 their edges, and thusmarring the road. It will therefore be-seen that by adjusting the nut 10the angle of inclination of the wheels can be varied to suit any pitchof road, and the rod 9 also serves as a lateral strengthening-brace tothe body-supporting bars or uprights 3.

One body-section provides mounting for a shaft 11, carrying drums atboth sides of the body, and chains 12, secured to said drums, are passedaround rollers or pulleys 13 on the other body-section and then securedto the first-mentioned section at or near its lower end. A crank 14 isprovided to turn shaft 11, wind the chain on the drums, and draw thebody-sections tight together or permit them to separate, and aratchet-wheel 15 is located on the shaft and controlled by a dog 16. Toeffectuallylock the sections together, a lever 17 may be pivotallysecured at one end to one section and has a shoulder near its other end.to engage behind a shoulder on the other section and securely hold thesections together. i

The vehicle may be used alone or in a train with others and may have anyform of coupling, shafts, or tongue, according to the use to which it isto be put.

The upright bars 3, axle-stubs 1, and connecting-bar 6 constitute acrank-axle, supporting the body between the wheels. By

constructing a vehicle as above explained great economy of space issecured not only m the dimensions of the vehicle, but also in its use,as it can turn in its own length, and the draft is exceedingly light.Also the incline of the wheels can be changed to suit the pitch of aroad and instead of cutting into the road will act as rollers to evenlypress the same.

A greatmany slight changes might bemade in the general form andarrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention,and hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself tothe precise construction shown, but consider myself at liberty to makesuch slight changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit andscope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is j 1. A dumping-wagon comprising a frame andtwo bodysections hinged together at their upper ends and supportedwithin said frame, and a single wheel at each side of said frame.

2. A dumping-wagon comprising a sectional hopper-shaped body having itsmembers hinged together at the top, a draftframe, means for mountingsaid body-sections in said draft-frame and a single wheel at each sideof said draft-frame.

3. A dumping-wagon comprising a draft frame, a wheel at each sidethereof, upright bars located centrally on said frame, and twobody-sections hinged together at their upper ends and supportedcoincident with said hinged connection by said upright bars.

4. A dumping-wagon comprising a draft frame, axle stubs projectingoutwardly at each side of said frame, wheels on said axlestubs, barsattached to the draft-frame adjacent to said axle-stubs and projectingupwardly, and a hopper-shaped body comprising two hinged members,disposed between said upright bars and. supported from the up per endsthereof.

5. A dumpingwagon comprising a draftframe, a single wheel at each sideof the center thereof, a hopper-shaped body comprising two sectionshinged together at their up per ends, means supporting said body attheir hinged upper ends, upon said draftframe, means for normallylocking said body sections together and means for drawing the sectionstogether.

6. The combination of a crank-axle,wheels supporting the same, and abody comprising two sections, eachhinged upon and su ported by saidcrank-axle between said whee s.

7. The combination of a crank-axle,wheels supporting the same, and ahopper-shaped body suspended from the axle, and comprising twohalf-sections hinged together upon the axle.

8. The combination with acrank axle, wheels supporting the same, and abody suspended from the axle, of means for adjusting the axle to changethe angle of inclination of the wheels.

9. The combination of a crank-axle comprising separable sections, wheelssupporting said axle, a body suspended from the axle, and a rod passedthrough upright sections of the crank-axle, and a nut screwed on saidrod and adapted to adjust the axle-sections to change the angle ofinclination of the wheels.

10. In a dumpingvehicle,the combination with a horizontal open frame, ofa crank-axle having its stubs projected out beyond the frame, wheels onsaid stubs, and a hopperbottom suspended from the axle in the frame, andcomprising two halfsections hinged together on the axle, means fordrawing the sections together or permit them to separate, and means forlocking them together.

11. A dumping-wagon comprising a frame, wheels supporting said frame, abody sup ported by the frame, and means for adjusting the wheels toadapt them to the pitch of the road.

12. The combination with a body, a frame carrying the same, and wheelssupporting said frame and body, of means for inclining said wheels inopposite directions to adapt their treads to the pitch of the road to hetraveled.

13. A dumping-wagon, comprisinga draftframe, uprights thereon, a bodysupported in said frame, axles projecting laterally from the lower endsof said uprights, wheels on said axles, and means for inclining theuprights to incline the treads of the wheels to adapt them to the pitchof the road to be traveled.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL O. LANCASTER.

Witnesses S. W. FOSTER, A. W. BRIGHT.

